Party Appeal for Fund for All India Special Conference

COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MARXIST-LENINIST)
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Friends,
                A definite right wind is blowing all over the world today. The elections in India and to the European parliament have underlined this fact. The present crisis in the imperialist economy is precisely the type of general crisis that Marx had foreseen. In spite of outward signs of recovery, nobody is prepared to believe that any recovery is going to be long-lasting. That is precisely why the rightist, fascistic, “anti-immigrant” forces have been able to gain so much ground all over the world.
                This crisis is a perfect example to illustrate that the imperialist system is not viable. It shows clearly that the imperialist system is bound for cyclic crises and even a temporary recovery is only the harbinger of an even greater collapse. However, the revisionist left has been left repeating that there was no alternative to imperialist globalization and has been actively implementing its policies just like the comprador parties, with greater confusion and misery. Nandigram and Singur are perfect examples of this. The CPI (M)–led left front in India is building SEZs, is displacing peasants and uprooting them from their lands and is cracking down upon struggling workers, with as much alacrity, if not more, as the UPA and the NDA. The root cause behind this pitiful degeneration of a communist party is their ideological bankruptcy. Communist parties do not become degenerate due to the “infiltration” of bourgeois agents. Rather bourgeois elements can come to power in communist parties when they do not have the ideological and political wherewithal to deal with the current onslaughts of imperialism.
                The revisionists have totally failed to understand neocolonialism. Having abandoned the program of “revolution”, they are consigned to become taggers-on of the comprador parties, from which position also, they are destined to be evicted, once their utility, in terms of mass following, is at an end.
                On the other hand, the sections of the ML which advocate “Maoism” are also playing a disruptive role. Deprived, since 40 years, of their dream of building up a “base area”, they resort to ever more barbaric and adventurist methods to remain in the public eye. The state and its attendant media also play up this illusion, as it justifies the repression and suppression that they have to let loose upon the people. It has become the justification for enacting black laws all over the country. The desperation and dogmatic, blinkered attitude of these Maoists also reflects nothing other than an ideological and political bankruptcy.
                Marxism, in its essence, is nothing other than the concrete analysis of the concrete situation. It was Marx’s brilliant analysis of capitalism and, later, of the loss of the Paris commune that led to the massive world-wide growth of the communist movement and Lenin’s masterly study of imperialism that led to the success of socialist revolutions in so many countries. Mao was able to apply these lessons to the concrete conditions of China, then a semi-colonial country, and achieve success in the first revolution in such a country.
                Today, there is a broad agreement that the system of exploitation being used by imperialism changed from a colonial system to a neo-colonial system around the time after the II World War. However, communists have failed to make a concrete study of this neocolonial system, even 60 years after it has come into existence. Without such an analysis, it is difficult to conceive of the communist movement being able to move out of the doldrums into which it has meandered.
                Our party been making such a study to the level that we are able. We have put forward an alternative understanding of the developments in the world after the II World War based upon this understanding. We have prepared an approach to why the ML movement was under the influence of the left sectarian line from its very inception. We have put forward a new position as the basis for the building up of a new international communist organization. We have put forward an understanding of Indian society and the Indian state based upon our understanding of the neocolonial world system and of what should be the path for the revolution in India.
                To consolidate all these positions, we have organized a Special Conference from 7th November 2009 to 12th November. We have invited fraternal parties and individuals from India and from abroad to attend this Special Conference so that our positions can be widely publicized. It is only by wide propagation and subsequent criticism and discussion that we expect these positions to be refined. To mark this Special Conference we will also be organizing a massive rally and public meeting on 7th November 2009 (the 92nd Anniversary of the Great October Revolution).
                We are a party of the working class and oppressed masses. The expenses for such a Special Conference will run into millions of rupees. We have to rely upon the working class, other oppressed classes and their sympathizers and well-wishers to make up this amount. We therefore appeal to you as a friend of the party to contribute liberally to this cause. The tasks before us are immense but not so great that we cannot achieve them if we share the burden.

K.N. Ramachandran
Central Secretary
CPI(ML)